Saturday, September 25

Here is the trailer for John Waters' latest movie, A Dirty Shame - and a new John Walters is always a red letter day round here . . . well, from now on. Slightly nervous that he's been drifting a little of late eg Pecker's dull last half hour, but he's due one.

Having blurbed all that, the New York Times review here does not bode well. Then again, the same reviewer gave a fidgety thumbs up to The Motorcycle Diaries, so . . .

If it is another (semi) duffer, Waters is sliding into the comfort zone of the likes of Noel Gallagher and - dare I even suggest it? - Martin Scorsese ie people whose interviews of late are better value than the new work they're ostensibly promoting. And, to invert Leonard Cohen's magnificent Tower of Song ("I asked Hank Williams how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet. But I hear him moaning all night long. He's a hundred floors above me, in the Tower of Song") at the foot of that slippery slope you'll find Dame David Bowie and Sir Mick of Jagger reminiscing about shared beds, threesomes and the latest discreet services available on the Upper East Side . . .

It must be said that, as dictators go, you're kind of pathetic. Instead of using a military coup
or systematic persecution to get power, you just happen to be the head of the only party in Great Britain
that isn't a cretinous joke. While not very impressive, it is none the less effective:
you can do whatever the hell you like without any chance of being voted out of office.

Enough people recognise that the alternatives would have them selling their parents and children
on eBay to pay for their own dental care (forever seeking to replicate your Colgate grin),
or bowing down in sandal-socked subservience to theocratic murderers who surprisingly declined
the liberal offer to shake hands and kiss it better.

As such, you can choose to ignore the rabble, or piss on them from a great height - and get away with it,
preaching the Gospel according to Blair using bits of whatever eastern philosophies
happen to be floating through your transom.